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Glowing + Alive

Chichester Cathedral Chichester

A dialogue across generations unfolds in the cathedral’s soaring spaces, where John Piper’s vivid spiritual symbolism meets Alice Carter’s contemporary paintings. An exhibition and events programme celebrating the 60th anniversary […]

Free

Lee’s Surreal Menagerie

Farleys House & Gallery Muddles Green, Chiddingly

Lee’s Surreal Menagerie reveals Lee Miller’s playful, uncanny imagination: a cabinet of creatures and objects that seem to slip between reality and dream.

Nancy Holt

Goodwood Art Foundation New Barn Hill, Goodwood, Chichester

The centrepiece of Goodwood’s summer season is the first major UK presentation devoted to the trailblazing American land artist Nancy Holt. Ambitious in scale, the project extends from the galleries […]

Walter Sickert / Gladys Hynes

Charleston Lewes Southover Road, Lewes

An interesting double header opens this spring at Charleston’s Lewes satellite. One exhibition focuses on Walter Sickert’s works on paper, examining the importance of drawings and prints to the proto-Modernist’s […]

Shipley Arts Festival 2026

Over the last 25 years Shipley has built a reputation for extraordinary music in exceptional, inspiring settings across Sussex: from chamber concerts in medieval churches to elegant evenings in historic […]

Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism

Towner Eastbourne Devonshire Park, College Rd, Eastbourne

Building on curator Andy Friend’s recent display at Tate Britain, this is the most comprehensive exhibition on the Artists International Association (AIA) in over four decades. It highlights the work […]

British Landscapes: A Sense of Place

Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester

The Chichester gallery opens its summer season with a sweeping look at how artists reimagined the British landscape between 1910 and 1970. The exhibition brings together major works by Ivon […]

Henry Moore and More

Wakehurst Ardingly, Haywards Heath

Kew Gardens’ Sussex outpost gets an extra dose of summer splendour with the arrival of four Henry Moore sculptures, joined by new work from three contemporary figures. British-Bangladeshi Rana Begum […]

Grim Glory: Lee Miller’s Britain at War

Farleys House & Gallery Muddles Green, Chiddingly

Following on from a record-breaking Tate exhibition, this is a special opportunity to see Lee Miller’s work in the context of her home. This exhibition focuses on her early-war years, […]

Geoff Hands: In the Landscape

Meiklejohn Gallery 1 Malling Street, Lewes

Hands’ richly textured, gestural abstract paintings are worked up from what he terms ‘psycho-geographic’ plein air drawings of landscapes and seascapes, rooted in memory and place, and inspired by Old […]

Bonfire Season 2026

From exploding effigies and burning crosses to torchlit processions and vast roaring fires, Sussex Bonfire season is autumn at its most elemental. The great crescendo is Lewes on the Fifth, […]

Tom Hammick, Flowing and Flown

Julian Page Projects 12 Northgate, Chichester

Known for luminous woodcuts and atmospheric paintings, shaped by a rural childhood and Romantic and Modernist English literature, Hammick creates twilight spaces where solitary figures linger between landscape and memory. […]

4 Painters

Cameron Contemporary Art 9b Queens Place, Brighton and Hove

The Hove gallery kicks off the autumn season with a stellar group showing, bringing gallery newcomers Vincent Spain, Brett Ryder and Josephine Birch together with regular Victoria Kiff.

I Remember the Mirage

Farleys House & Gallery Muddles Green, Chiddingly

From Sept 17, Alison Hand: I Remember the Mirage unveils eerie landscapes by the Newhaven-based painter. The exhibition brings together artworks exploring themes of time, illusion, hallucination, beliefs, and historical […]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chichester Festival Theatre Oaklands Way, Chichester

Ready for a wild ride? Festival 2026 closes with a Shakespeare and 90s-Sussex-rave-culture mash-up. Expect runaway lovers in the South Downs, an illicit rave run by Oberon, and clueless Young […]

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Concert Season 2026/27

Joanna MacGregor leads a vibrant season from the BPO, opening with the virtuoso sweep of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini on September 27. October brings Stravinsky’s crystalline Symphonies […]

Quentin Bell / Olivia Sterling

Charleston Firle, Lewes

The first major exhibition dedicated to Quentin Bell in almost 30 years brings together over 100 works in ceramics, sculpture, works on paper and painted objects. Running concurrently, contemporary artist […]

Edge

Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings

The first of two landmark exhibitions responding to the gallery’s shingle-beach setting, tackling ocean futures, sustainability and the fragile meeting point of land and sea. Curated by The Land Gardeners, […]

Shoreham Wordfest 2026

Book readings, author Q&As, walks and talks, and plenty of performances can be found at the festival’s 15th edition, titled Time and Tide. Authors include Kate Mosse (see ROSA Magazine […]

Brighton Early Music Festival 2026

This year’s theme, Bringers of Dreams, explores 1,000 years of creativity across 20+ events. Immerse yourself in spectacular highlights like the Renaissance Florentine extravaganza City of Dreams and a stunning […]

Autumn at Quiet Space Studio

Quiet Space Studio 63 Broadmark Lane, Rustington

Penny Schuler & Martin Lowell invite you to their Quiet Space Studio and home, to visit and explore curated contemporary works by 10 artists. Works include paintings, ceramics, sculptures and paper […]

Diwali at Bateman’s

Bateman's Bateman's Lane, Burwash

Celebrate the Festival of Lights and discover beautiful Indian objects, artworks and hand-crafted decorations in the former family home of Rudyard Kipling. The writer was born and lived in India; […]

Ongoing

AFTER-IMAGE

Private: AFTER-IMAGE
Phoenix Art Space 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton and Hove

AFTER-IMAGE celebrates the close proximity of the Phoenix Art Space to the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery by presenting a small but engaging display of paintings and photographs inspired by […]

Goodwood Art Foundation – Summer Programme

Goodwood Art Foundation New Barn Hill, Goodwood, Chichester

The Summer programme opens 2 May and unfolds through earthworks, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics and large-scale outdoor installations. Explore a summer of art across two galleries, an evolving 70-acre landscape, complemented […]

£15 – £18

IN THE LANDSCAPE

Meiklejohn Gallery 1 Malling Street, Lewes

An exhibition of recent paintings for Lewes ART WAVE at Meiklejohn Gallery that explore sweeping landscapes and more intimate, overlooked spaces, in East Sussex. Combining direct observation from walking and […]

Martyn Jones – Wanderlust

Oxmarket Contemporary St. Andrew’s Court off East Street, Chichester

Oxmarket are delighted to welcome back Martyn Jones with his exhibition - Wanderlust in the Wilson Gallery. Martyn Jones is a contemporary painter based in Cardiff, Wales. He studied for […]

Sinclair Webster – ‘Little White Lines’

Oxmarket Contemporary St. Andrew’s Court off East Street, Chichester

Sinclair Webster will join us at Oxmarket in our John Rank Gallery for his exhibition ‘Little White Lines’. Sinclair grew up in Khartoum, Nairobi and Flanders, where he first began […]